2014 tupac shakur biography summary

The album did better than the previous one debuting on number 24 on the Billboard The album contains many tracks emphasizing Tupac's political and social views. This album had more commercial success than its predecessor, and there were noticeable differences in production. While Tupac's first effort had an indie-rap-oriented sound, this album was considered his "breakout" album.

For the film, see Thug Life film. For the album, see Thug Life: Volume 1. The group released their only album Thug Life: Volume 1 on September 26, , which went gold. The group usually performed their concerts without Shakur. Due to criticism about gangsta rap at the time, the original version of the album was scrapped and re-recorded with many of the original songs being cut.

Although the original version of the album was not completed, Tupac performed the planned first single from the album, "Out on Bail" at the Source Awards. Although the album was originally released on Shakur's label Out Da Gutta, Amaru Entertainment, the label owned by the mother of Tupac Shakur, has since gained the rights to it. Thug Life: Volume 1 was certified Gold.

Shakur was rushed to Bellevue Hospital after a near-fatal shooting in On the night of November 30, , the day before the verdict in his sexual abuse trial was to be announced, Shakur was shot five times and robbed by two armed men in army fatigues after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan. Shakur also suspected his close friend and associate, Randy "Stretch" Walker, of being involved in the attack.

In a documentary, Biggie says that they were in the recording studio and did not know Shakur would be there. Once they heard he was downstairs, Lil' Cease went to get him but came back with news that he had just been shot. When Biggie 's entourage went downstairs to check on the incident, Shakur was being taken out on a stretcher, still conscious and giving the finger to those around.

According to the doctors at Bellevue Hospital, where he was admitted immediately following the incident, Shakur had received five bullet wounds; twice in the head, twice in the groin and once through the arm and thigh. His father also mentions that when he saw Tupac's groin, he knew that he was his son. He checked out of the hospital against doctor's orders, three hours after surgery.

In the day that followed, Shakur entered the courthouse in a wheelchair and was found guilty of three counts of molestation, but innocent of six others, including sodomy. On February 6, , he was sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison on a sexual assault charge. A year later on November 30, , Stretch was killed after being shot twice in the back by three men who pulled up alongside his green minivan at th Ave.

His minivan smashed into a tree and hit a parked car. The article, which was later retracted by the LA Times because it partially relied on FBI documents which turned out to be forged was thought to be vindicated in when Dexter Isaac admitted to attacking Tupac on orders from Henchman. In a June 12, exclusive for The Village Voice, Philips reported that Jimmy Henchman admitted to setting up Tupac's ambush during one of nine "Queen For A Day" proffer sessions with the government in autumn of , according to prosecutors, key evidence supporting Philips' theory of the attack.

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Archived from the original on September 19, Harvard University Gazette. It is considered one of the greatest and most influential hip-hop albums of all time. It is Shakur's fourth-best-selling album with 3,, copies sold in the United States as of The album is frequently recognized as one of the crowning achievements of s rap music.

Steve Huey of AllMusic stated that "despite some undeniable filler, it is easily the best production 2Pac's ever had on record". It featured five singles in all, the most of any 2Pac album. Moreover, All Eyez on Me which was the only Death Row release to be distributed through PolyGram by way of Island Records made history as the first double-full-length hip-hop solo studio album released for mass consumption.

It was issued on two compact discs and four LPs. It sold , copies in the first week of its release and was charted in the top for one-week Soundscan sales since By the end of , the album had sold 5 million copies. In October , Shakur was released from prison after serving nine months of a sentence for sexual assault and formed a new group called Outlaw Immortalz.

Shakur joined the Death Row label, under which he released the single "California Love". This double album was the first and second of his three-album commitment to Death Row Records. It sold more than nine million copies. The record was a general departure from the introspective subject matter of Me Against the World, being more oriented toward a thug and gangsta mentality.

Shakur continued his recordings despite increasing problems at the Death Row label. Dre left his post as in-house producer to form his own label, Aftermath. In the track, Shakur claimed to have had sexual intercourse with Faith Evans, the wife of Wallace, Shakur's former friend and rival, and attacked Bad Boy's street credibility. Shakur was convinced that some members associated with Bad Boy had known about the attack on him due to their behavior that night and the information that his sources gave to him.

Shakur, therefore, aligned himself with Suge, Death Row's CEO, who was already bitter toward Combs over a incident at the Platinum Club in Atlanta, Georgia, which culminated in the death of Jake Robles, the friend and bodyguard of Suge Knight; Knight was adamant in voicing his suspicions about Combs' involvement. In the years following their killings, associates of both Shakur and The Notorious B.

When Shakur recorded "Hit 'Em Up", a diss song toward Biggie, he recruited three members from the former group, Dramacydal, with whom he had worked previously and was eager to do so again. Shakur, with the three New Jersey rappers and other associates, formed the original lineup of the Outlawz. Hussein Fatal, Napoleon, E. They later dropped the Immortal part of their name after the untimely deaths of 2Pac and Yaki Kadafi and moved on as Outlawz without the members of Thug Life.

It was on 2Pac's Makaveli album that Outlawz first came to the greater rap community's notice, appearing on a few songs. The idea behind the group was for each member to have a rap name coinciding with the names of various tyrants or enemies of America, past, and present. Outlawz chose in later years to make a backronym out of the letters of their group name Operating Under Thug Laws as Warriorz although it does not stand for the group's name and is used infrequently.

Spouse Keisha Morris April 29, - annulled. Afeni Shakur. Billy Garland. Mutulu Shakur. Sekyiwa Shakur Half Sibling. Mopreme Shakur Sibling. Nzingha Shakur Niece or Nephew. On November 30, , exactly one year to the day of the shooting, Stretch was killed in an execution-style murder in Queens. Shakur began serving his prison sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility on February 14, Shortly afterwards, he released his multi-platinum album Me Against the World.

Shakur is the only artist ever to have an album at number one on the Billboard while serving a prison sentence. The album made its debut on the Billboard and stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. The record album sold , copies in its first week, setting a record for highest first week sales for a solo male rap artist at the time.

He married his long-time girlfriend, Keisha Morris , while serving his sentence. This marriage was later annulled. Read for Keisha Morris, here. It debuted at number one upon its February release, and would be certified quintuple platinum by the fall. Although he had a hit record and, with the Dr. He also made some recordings for Death Row, which was quickly disintegrating without Dre as the house producer, and as Knight became heavily involved in illegal activities.

The album presents a stark contrast to previous works. Throughout the album, Tupac continues to focus on the themes of pain and aggression, making this album one of the emotionally darker works of his career. Tupac wrote and recorded all the lyrics in only three days and the production took another four days, combining for a total of seven days to complete the album hence the name.

The album was completely finished before Shakur died and Shakur had complete creative input on the album from the name of the album to the cover, which Shakur chose to symbolize how the media had crucified him. The record debuted at number one and sold , copies in the first week. Shakur immediately rushed Anderson and knocked him to the ground.

At p. At about p. Shakur, who was standing up through the sunroof, exchanged words with the two women, and invited them to go to Club At approximately p. He was struck by four rounds; one hit him in the chest, the pelvis, and his right hand and thigh. Knight was hit in the head by shrapnel, though it is thought that a bullet grazed him.

According to Knight, a bullet from the gunfire had been lodged in his skull, however, medical reports later contradicted this statement. After arriving on the scene, police and paramedics took Knight and a fatally wounded Shakur to the University Medical Center. Upon hearing this, Gobi immediately alerted the Las Vegas police, but the police claimed they were understaffed and no one could be sent.

Nonetheless, the shooters never arrived. At the hospital, Shakur was in and out of consciousness; heavily sedated, breathed through a ventilator and respirator, was placed on life support machines, and was ultimately put under a barbiturate-induced coma after repeatedly trying to get out of the bed. While in Critical Care Unit on the afternoon of September 13, , Shakur died of internal bleeding; doctors attempted to revive him but could not stop his hemorrhaging.

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